The SAG Awards win Sunday comes after "Birdman" collected nine Oscar nominations earlier this month — tying with "The Grand Budapest Hotel" for the most of any film — and on the same weekend that the Fox Searchlight movie won the Producers Guild of America's top honor.

"Birdman" beat out "Boyhood," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game" and "The Theory of Everything" for SAG's movie ensemble prize.

The Screen Actors Guild paid tribute to actress, singer and dancer Debbie Reynolds and her near-seven-decade career Sunday night, presenting her with the 51st SAG Life Achievement Award.
Accepting the honor from daughter Carrie Fisher, who delivered a...

Actress, singer and dancer Debbie Reynolds has been named the recipient of the 51st SAG Life Achievement Award for her career and humanitarian accomplishments.
Reynolds, a 66-year veteran of show business, will receive the honor at the 21st Screen Actors...

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has been a movie fan since his days as a kid in Brooklyn, when he had to sneak into the theater to avoid the wrath of his father. In his new book, "Not to Be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites From a Lifetime...

A book with the title of "Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites From a Lifetime of Film" may seem straightforward enough. But to me that title raises all kinds of questions. Why such a book? Why 54 films, and what criteria were used to select...

From the moment AJ Palmgren learned of Lot 397, he knew he had to have it.
But he had never bid at an auction before, and as he took a seat toward the back of the gallery, his nerves took over.
"I hoped I wasn't going to space out," he...

Auction house Profiles in History has announced that the third and final audition of actress Debbie Reynolds' Hollywood collection will take place May 17 and 18.
The veteran actress, whose career included the 1952 film "Singin' in the Rain,"...

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" does not look or sound like a film that is 50 years old. Digitally restored with unusual delicacy, it continues to charm and delight for the same reasons it did back in 1964.
Winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes and...

The Screen Actors Guild paid tribute to actress, singer and dancer Rita Moreno on Saturday night, presenting her with the 50th SAG Life Achievement Award.
Accepting the honor, the 82-year-old performer said, "I am so ...," and then sheepishly...

When Rita Moreno received a call last summer from SAG-AFTRA co-President Ken Howard, her first thought was that something was wrong.
"I was in the car on my Bluetooth and he said, 'Rita, This is Ken Howard.' I said, 'Why the hell are you calling me?...

Do the clothes really help find the character? Is it a good idea to watch your own acting? And are movies sacrificing entertainment to be morally correct?
The performers participating in The Envelope's Actors Round Table wrestled with those and other...

Turner Classic Movies is set to present the U.S. TV premiere of Mark Cousins' acclaimed 15-hour documentary, "The Story of Film: An Odyssey," beginning Sept. 2.
The cable network will show Cousins' documentary with a complementary program of...

John Gilbert was the golden boy at MGM during the final years of the silent era. He was the young studio's biggest male star, working with such top directors as King Vidor ("The Big Parade," 1925), Erich von Stroheim ("The Merry...

John D. Lowry, an entertainment technology innovator who founded Lowry Digital Images, the renowned movie restoration company in Burbank that worked its magic by returning film classics such as "Casablanca" and "Star Wars" to their...

Uan Rasey
Trumpet player in 'Chinatown' and other films
Uan Rasey, 90, a first-call trumpet player for MGM and other studio orchestras best known for his evocative solo in Roman Polanski's 1974 film "Chinatown," died Sept. 26 at Kaiser...

WHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though...